The College News
Volume VI. No. 3
BRYN MAWR, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1919
Price 5 Cents
R ADICAL CHANGES IN STUDENT
GOVERNMENT PROPOSED
All Questions to Come Before Advi-
sory and Executive Boards
A more democratic organization of
Student Government was outlined by A.
Harrison, president, at a meeting of
the Association last week.
According to the new plan the Execu-
tive Board will be enlarged by the addi-
tion of a sophomore and a freshman
member. The Advisory Board will con-
sist of the six head proctors (juniors).
two senior representatives, two sopho-
mores, two freshmen, two graduates, a
non-resident, and the secretary and
treasurer of the Association. Every
question will be voted on by the Advis-
ory Board, but no names will be used
and no one will be asked to bear wit-
ness. The question will then go to the
Executive Board for- final decision. In
case of questions requiring immediate
action, the president, who is chairman
of both boards, will either call a joint
meeting or will ask the Executive Board
to decide. Any member of the Associa-
tion may meet with the Advisory Board,
but may not take part in the discussion.
The Executive Board will act in confer-
ences with the college authorities.
The Association is investigating the
organization of the Student Government
Associations of other colleges before
calling a second meeting of the Bryn
Mawr Association to decide more defi-
nitely on plans.
Prominent Speakers to Address
College on Social Service
Professor Kirchwey, former superin-
tendent of Sing Sing, Dr. Catherine
Davis. Parole and Probation Officer of
the Juvenile Courts in New York; Paul
Kellogg, editor of the Survey, and Dr.
James Leuba are among the speakers
who will lead a course in practical Social
Service under the World Citizenship
Committee of the C. A. on Wednesday
evenings during the first semester. Mr.
William Simpson will open the course
Thursday evening at 7.30. Mr. Simp-
son has been working as a day laborer
in factories and mines out West this
summer in order to get the point of view
of labor.
Almost every branch of Social Serv-
ice wilt be taken up in this course and all
the lectures will be led by prominent
speakers. Mr. Paul Kellogg, who was
in England last winter, will speak on the
British Labor Party, and Mrs. Raymond
Robbins on Trade Unions in the United
States. Mrs. Robbins will come to Bryn
Mawr directly from the first Interna-
tional Women's Trade Unions Confer-
ence which she is superintending in
Washington. Dr. Welch, uncle of L.
Kellogg, '20, and head of the Hygiene
and Public Health Department at Johns
Hopkins, will lecture on Medical Social
Service. Mrs. Falconer, who was for-
merly head of Sleighton Farms, the
Pennsylvania State Reformatory, and is
at present engaged in starting model re-
formatories all over the United States,
will speak on her work. The course alto
includes Miss Eva Whiting White, head
of the New York College Settlement;
James Johnson, a negro poet, and several
other well-known people.
Programs of the course will be dis-
tributed Wednesday, with slips attached,
on which all students who intend to take
the course may sign their names and give
them to their hall representatives.
ALUMNA HOPE8 FOR ELECTION A8
FIRST WOMAN JUDGE IN
NEW YORK
Miaa Rembaugh a Leading Member of
New York Bar
The proposal to endow the chair of poli-
tics as a memorial to Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw with the first hundred thousand dol-
lars in the Two Million Dollar Campaign,
chimes in nicely with the news that a
Bryn Mawr graduate has just become the
first woman candidate ever nominated for
judicial office in New York City.
Bertha Rembaugh, "97, who received both
her A.B. and M.A. at Bryn Mawr, has
long been known as a lawyer, suffragist,
and civic worker in New York. She runs
on the Republican ticket. True, the
Republican Party has chosen her to run
in a district that has been Tammany's own
for years and years. Politicians the
country over still keep their sure districts
for their men candidates, but they hope
with Miss Rembaugh to make their first
dent in the election district south of
Fourteenth Street, a strange metropolitan
region that includes Washington Square,
the Bowery, Chinatown, Wall Street, Park
Row, most of the city's dock quarters, the
Armenian and Italian districts, and the
lower East Side ghetto.
Mrs. Charles Knoblauch (Mary Alletta
Bookstaver '98), one of the Woman's
Committee which sprang up to back Miss
Rembaugh's campaign�a committee of
women of all kinds�Republicans, Demo-
crats. Socialists, home-makers, professional
women, bankers' wives and laundresses�
says in The New York Evening Post for
October 10: "We think it only fair that
one of these judges should be a woman.
It is a known fact that one-third of the
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Tennis a Major Sport to be Discussed
hy Athletic Association
Mr. Hoskins To Coach Squads
Better tennis and more of it is the aim
of the Tennis Committee of the Athletic
Association which, with Miss Applebee,
reorganized the sport, at a meeting held
last week. Mr. Hoskins, Secretary of the
National Lawn Tennis Association, who
will coach tennis on Wednesday after-
noons, will do much toward improving
tennis at Bryn Mawr.
Foot-faults and the form necessary for
a powerful serve were emphasized by Mr.
Hoskins in his first talk last Wednesday
afternoon when he demonstrated and criti-
cised strokes to a large crowd of students
on one of the upper courts. Good material
is not lacking in the college, according to
Mr. Hoskins, and the students whose play-
ing he criticised proved apt in putting his
suggestions into practice.
The question of making tennis a major
sport will be brought before the Athletic
Association at the next meeting. The
plans of the Tennis Committee are to abol-
ish doubles and play the singles matches
in the spring, eliminating all except prac-
tice tennis in the fall. Such practice,
counted as exercise, would have no time
limit, but students would be expected to
play two sets or the equivalent The
singles teams would, according to the new
plan, consist of five instead of three
players.
Class squads, three in each class and of
ten persons each, will be formed and the
corresponding squads of the four classes
will be called out to play at specified times,
as for hockey. Squad ladders will be
posted in the gymnasium and the first
player on any ladder may challenge the
last player on the ladder of the next higher
squad.
STUDENT BUILDING
CAMPAIGN SUSPENDED
Confined to Publicity Work During
Alumnae Drive
Rush Night Discussed
Campaigning for building funds by the
Student Building Committee will be sus-
pended temporarily during the progress of
the Alumnae Drive, according to a sense
of the meeting of the Undergraduate
Association taken last Thursday night.
In the meantime the Student Building
Committee will stand ready to co-operate
with the Alumnae in their drive for the
$2,000,000 Endowment Fund.
Publicity work to keep awake the interest
in the Student Building will be carried
on during the year, in order that the
campaign may be reopened as soon as the
Alumnae Drive is completed.
Pay-Day Collectors to be Paid
Pay-day collectors and their assistants
are to receive salaries, by vote of the Asso-
ciation taken at the same meeting. Through
an assessment of each member of the
Association thirty-five cents a semester,
$12 a semester will be given to each head
collector and $8 to the assistant collector
in each hall. The papers have been posted
in the halls for names of applicants for the
positions. The collectors will be appointed
this week and a schedule of pay days
drawn up at once.
General dissatisfaction with Parade
Night, under the present rules, was dis-
closed when the matter was brought up
during the meeting. Juniors and Sopho-
mores who had gone through Rush Night
this year voiced the feeling that much of
the sporting element had been lost from
the occasion and that it did not accom-
plish its original purpose of uniting the
Freshman Class. The members of the
committee appointed by the board to inves-
tigate possible revisions of Parade Night
rules are: J. Peyton '21, chairman; D.
Rogers 20, H. Hill '21, M. Tyler '22, E.
Anderson '22.
LORD DUNSANY TO SPEAK HERE
EXPERIMENTAL GAS WORK
DONE BY DR. CRENSHAW
IN FRANCE
Worked as Head of Chemical Section
of Only American Gas Field
Analysis of captured German gas
shells and explosives; experiments on
animals for the effects of gas, were a
part of the work of Dr. James Llewellyn
Crenshaw during his eighteen months'
war service in France. As Chief of the
I. S Chemical Section he was stationed
at the Chemical Warfare Experimental
Field near Chaumont, the only Ameri-
can gas field in France, from July, 1918.
until the armistice.
He was ordered to the British front as
an observer, after three weeks at camp
in the fall of 1917. and in February spent
another week at the front with the artil-
lery of the first American division, in
order to learn the actual difficulties the
men had to undergo. While he was
waiting for the American field to be com-
pleted he studied the British method of
gas warfare for a month and in May
worked with the French at Paris.
After the armistice Dr. Crenshaw
taught for a month in the American Uni-
versity at Beaune, which had been start-
ed for the purpose of providing occupa-
tion for the American soldiers still sta-
tioned in France.
Will Lecture on "My Own Lands"
October 25, Under English Club
Lord Dunsany, poet, soldier and crack
shot of Ireland, will speak in the gymna-
sium, Saturday evening, October 25th, at
8.15. under the auspices of the English
Club. Lord and Lady Dunsany arrived in
this country last Thursday on the liner
France.
"Gods and Men," "A Dreamer's Tales,"
"Golden Doom" and "The Lost Silk Har-
are among his best known works. Lord
Dunsany will speak on "My Own Lands;"
he refers here to his lands of wonder, the
background of most of his plays. Edwin
Bjorkman, who wrote the introduction to
one of his books, says that Dunsany "is not
only the master but the maker of the
countries to which he takes us on such
fascinating jaunts. His commonest name
for them is the Edge of the World, but
sometimes he speaks of them as the Lands
of Wonder. This latter name is doubly
significant, for the whole movement of
which he forms such a striking manifesta-
tion has been defined as "the renaissance
'if wonder."
Fought at Gallipoli as Major
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunket,
Lord Dunsany, was born in 1878. He was
educated at Eton and Sandhurst and
served in the Coldstream Guards during
the South African War. In the Great
War he was Major of the Inniskillen
Fusiliers and fought at Gallipoli. He
returned safely to Ireland, but was
wounded in the Dublin riots.
Lord Dunsany always uses a quill pen
but in most ways lives the life of a typical
Englishman. His favorite ambition has
been to be the champion shot of Ireland.
Edward Bierstadt illustrates his almost
childlike delight in out-of-door sports by
describing Bernard Shaw and Lord Dun-
sany sailing paper-boats in the pools near
Dunsany Castle.
Sir Horace Plunket, Lord Dunsany's
uncle, discovered "A. E." in a clerk's
office and. upon the recommendation of
Yeats, sent him as an ambassador among
the rural classes in Ireland. This was the
beginning of "A. E. S.," career.
VARSITY DEFEATS ST. MARTINS
3-1 IN FIRST GAME OF SEASON
Offlcs Notice
Dean Smith would like to see all Fresh-
men again in her office, and particularly
all Freshmen who have matriculation con-
ditions, as soon as possible.
Loss of 1919s Wings Felt
Bryn Mawr won the first hockey game
of the year against Si. Martin's $-2, in a
ragged but hard-fought game.
St. Martins started strong, making two
goals in the first few minutes. Through-
out the game they displayed better
teamwork than Varsity, which struggled
under the handicap of a new line-up.
Captain Carey was the backbone of the
team and helped to make the half-backs
the strongest factors in the game. Both
Varsity wings were weak and time and
time again left the ball out or took it
far down only to make a wild pass or
to lose it to St. Martin's full-backs.
For awhile it looked as if Bryn Mawr
were going to break its record of not hav-
ing lost a game for two years.
A Nicoll. '22. turned the tide by put-
ting in a goal and immediately after-
ward C. Bickley, 71, shot in a second.
Half-time blew with the score a tie, 2-2.
Bryn Mawr came back strong at the
beginning of the second half. E. Ander-
son, '22. made a pretty goal, the only
one of the half, from just inside the
circle. St. Martin's defense was good.
Their goal, who stopped several balls on
the fly with her stick, proved herself al-
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